The Official Pune Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[dineshsamtani]

Thanks mate ! i think I missed replying to one of your PMs. Can that be true ? The moment i saw your avataar my brain started telling me I had to PM you about something.

Ya mate...it was during the MOTO GP GTG...just PMed to ask you if things were ok..

[nitrosatya]

Congratulations to you Tenhut! Now you might have an idea about my signature! And why i say so.....

Just hoping to calm you. Check out these links.


BikePics - 2010 Honda CBR 1000 RR Home Page on BikePics.Com

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[inflammable]

@ Tenhut.. When are you donating Ninja to me? i am ready to come over to ivory Estate.. the moment you confirm. Any Ninja donations made will be eligible for tax exemptions under Sec 80C and 80 D.

Garibo ki sune.. uparwala tumahri sunega.. Tum ek ninja doge.. woh 10 lakh dega.. (And from that 10 Lakh.. you can buy your Blade. )

[inder.cool]

You didnt read my Honda Essay ? My school competition rated it as 'very good' and when i showed it to my mom she gave me a ChupaChups.
Go Read....Ahole !

Hilarious is the word for it(till the time you dont start your numbered points.. )..

But, what made you realize that i have a BF in mumbai (and heck i dont have one ) i guess we never discussed abt it our Pune G2Gs..

[JitenMistry]

Guys,

Any ridding plan on coming weekend (especially Sunday)???

[TenHut]

@ Tenhut.. When are you donating Ninja to me? i am ready to come over to ivory Estate.. the moment you confirm. Any Ninja donations made will be eligible for tax exemptions under Sec 80C and 80 D.

Garibo ki sune.. uparwala tumahri sunega.. Tum ek ninja doge.. woh 10 lakh dega.. (And from that 10 Lakh.. you can buy your Blade. )

zaror dega...lagta hai uparwale ne meri sun li ! Mere liye to aap hi uparwale ho sahab. Aeeyega 10 lkah rupaye le kar aur le jayiga ninja apni samajh kar.

Hilarious is the word for it(till the time you dont start your numbered points.. )..

But, what made you realize that i have a BF in mumbai (and heck i dont have one ) i guess we never discussed abt it our Pune G2Gs..

Hi inder ! Good Greetings to you my friend !
Pub lore, Inder. The bulleted points were pub lore. It is the stuff which is not true but eventually is believed to be true due to sheer hearsay. 'every point is wildly inaccurate than the last'

Nitro thanks for those pics mate ! I had not seen them before. So many of them ..they will last me for an entire night.

[MotorBreath!]

@Tenhut: congrats for the blade..the best SBK money can buy IMO.. she sure is beautiful, btw are you booking your blade from the same showroom which is located @ Andheri(E). The other member(RohraManish) from xBhp had some booking issues with it(the showroom).. you might have gone thru his thread in the superbike section.. yea>?

[spiderweb]

@TenHut: Heartiest Congrats... to a New Honda fan from a Loyal Honda fan
Needless to say, if I had that kinda finance, I would have been riding Blade now

[MG]

@Tenhut - Congrats. So you are the next Honda child of xBhp

I am about to post something. That something is gonna be something about the one thing that has smitten me so badly that I am having a tough time comprehending reality, time, space and gravity. I feel like I am on steroids,coke,caffeine,tanine and every other PED out there. My brain refuses to stop processing thoughts about the Fireblade and I refuse to believe that human beings could produce anything as genius as this piece of finely engineered Motorcycle.
At the very outset, however, I must admit that I have a few things I need to settle with a certain few members of our motorcycling fraternity who through no fault of their own have come to think of the Blade as a 'nice' unentertaining bike. I know exactly where this kinda thinking stems from. Pub lore !!!

Pub lore is like a zombie plague, irrational, unthinking and unstoppable.
Allow me to pen a few examples..
1.Twins make more torque
2.Supermotos are quicker than Sportbikes.
3.Fireblades are too 'nice'.
4.Inder has a boyfriend in Mumbai.
5.Vishwas is going to Leh(and coming back in one piece)
6.Sagar has his braking fingers insured for the cost of Keiron Pollard.
7.TenHut is a noob.

Each statement wildly inaccurate than the last, except maybe the last one.
But such is the nature of Pub lore. When one guy tells the other that the Blade is a boring piece of machinery the other tells it to the waiter while ordering his extra cheese on his Uttapa and soon the entire of Roopali knows that the Blade sucks balls. I have often propogated such nonsensical pub lore a countless number of times and have all the more been the victim of one myself. Pub lore is fun.
The living proof that pub lore works is the fact that every tom dick and harry wants an R1. While the R1 is a space shuttle which will get you to the moon and back in its first gear alone( the tallest first gear of all the litre bikes R1 =170 kmph,blade = 160 kmph) it has nothing of which you can even remotely expect to use on the streets. The R1 in my eyes has a shortcoming. It is a race bike made legal on the streets by merely adding a set of indicators to it.
It is like telling an 18 year old kid : " here ...take this bike and suffer the consequences"
The blade on the other hand is a race track bike which can be ridden on the streets, in the air and on water. When you arent throttling the four cylinder its like the blade is talking to you ; 'The point is...while you are looking for some feedback from the Blade the Blade is looking for some feedback from you. Its a symbiotic relationship.
It fits you like a perfect winter glove.
However regardless of how many counter arguments you put through the heads of some infidels, they - cla click - just - BAAM - wont - cla click - stay - BAAM - down. They just - cla click - keep coming - BAAM BAAM!

• The head of the Honda Workshop in Mumbai is one crazy middle aged guy who has years of redlining superbikes. He himself owns a Hayabusa and has raced at Qatar Losail International like countless times and once in the company of Rossi on a wet track. When I am buying something to the tune of 15 lakhs that is the only kinda man I want to be talking to. Someone who knows what he is selling.
• The exhaust of the 2010 Fireblade sits BENEATH the engine. It is lower than the engine. MotoGP pedigree. Helps your Handling if you are in the league of Hayden or Spies.
• The Blade doesnt sit up and head for the scenery, as many bikes do when you are trialing the front into a bend. Courtsey : Honda race class inverted forks.
• The short owlish nose creates an illusion that you are sitting right over the front fork. In reality, the rider is part of the mass-centralisation. Plonked in the middle of the seat is exactly where the bike needs you to be and the suspension does the rest. The snubby nose mimics the abbreviated proboscis of the RC212V MotoGP bike, something Honda says makes for easier steering transitions at speed. Function and Performance first.
• When I first saw no hydraulic clutch on the Blade I immediately raised a smirk and applauded myself for having found a flaw in the Blade. Upon investigating more I realised to my pleasure that I was wrong. Hydraulic clutch is heavier. Honda has cable actuated unit far superior to hydraulic. Again with 20 million patents to their name for this, the lever pull is as light as that of a hydraulic clutch.
• The aluminum frame consists of just four pieces instead of conventional nine. Although the structure is 2.2kgs lighter, Honda says rigidity is up in all three axes: 40% laterally; 13% torsionally; and 30% at longitudinally
• The Blade weighs a little under 200Kgs with Fuel. Equivalent weight for the Ninja 250R = 170 kgs.
• 2nd generation Steering Damper. They say this technology, along with Hondas anti hopping slipper clutch, is alien.
• C- ABS. The only bike with it. Period.
  

Why am I sputterign all this in Pune Offline forum ? I want to share the excitement of having dyno tested and test ridden the Fireblade and to have compared it with the 2010 R1. The R1 was a beautiful thing but I dont have the will to sing praises to it. No hard feelings !

Ladies and Gentlemen I am so smitten by Honda and the pinnacle of motorcycling technology that by the end of this day I would have booked the digital silver 2010 Fireblade.
http://boystoman.files.wordpress.com...de_c-abs_3.jpg

WOOT !

I hope an asteroid doesnt obliterate planet earth before that happens. i am really worried about that. Would you say I am not in the right state of mind?

p.s. Copy Pasted from everywhere !

Very well written. Please move over to "SBK & Import" section and make a dedicated thread for your new aquisition. Its badly needed.

[inflammable]

zaror dega...lagta hai uparwale ne meri sun li ! Mere liye to aap hi uparwale ho sahab. Aeeyega 10 lkah rupaye le kar aur le jayiga ninja apni samajh kar.

If I had 10 Lakhs (hard cash) to spare.. I would go and buy a new 600RR or R6 for that matter not a Ninja 250 Sirji.

[trustvishwas]

If I had 10 Lakhs (hard cash) to spare.. I would go and buy a new 600RR or R6 for that matter not a Ninja 250 Sirji.

Dude, even if you had 10 Lakhs hard cash to spare, you can't buy a new 600RR. After paying penalty, fine, duties etc, it will work out to more than 14 Lakhs.

I wanted to propose a ride to Rajmachi sometime in next couple of weeks. It will help new riders like me to understand offroading (in preparation of Leh). Senior members like paaji, Satyen may not need this exposure but I surely need it.

[MG]

I wanted to propose a ride to Rajmachi sometime in next couple of weeks. It will help new riders like me to understand offroading (in preparation of Leh). Senior members like paaji, Satyen may not need this exposure but I surely need it.

Great. I was also thinking of such a G2G. I'm 200% in if its on a Sunday morning.

[surojit]

me and rishabH will be leavin for mumbai tomorrow early mornin to avoid the chillin cold... we plan to leave around 6 in the morning.... and plan to come back the same nite.... anyone interested to join in pls post or call me my no is 9028783539

[darkknight]

Great. I was also thinking of such a G2G. I'm 200% in if its on a Sunday morning.

great.. finally MG's adhuri Khwaish (courtesy paaji member ) will be complete.

Of all the members the scaredy cat (inder) needs to practice offroading

[MG]

Of all the members the scaredy cat (inder) needs to practice offroading

I'm not sure which bike is he taking for the ride (Leh) as his Karizma was making weird noise from all over the places